Your first car, what was it please?

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Martin, does this look familiar? Oxen used to pull wooden vehicles!
 
PaulR said:
With the quartic steering wheel or the later one with a regular shaped wheel?
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No, the round wheel - and one of the less potent engines.
 
Slightly off topic, but had to have 4 new Tyre's on my polo.

4 places locally quoted me £400+ for bridgestone b250's as that's what was on the car.

I went online and found a website called black circles, and got 4 Yokohama blue earth's fitted for £273.00

They send them to my local fitter. So I am well chuffed with the savings, as I hot higher grade Tyre's then my local fitters could do.
 
Chris1979 said:
Slightly off topic, but had to have 4 new Tyre's on my polo.

4 places locally quoted me £400+ for bridgestone b250's as that's what was on the car.

I went online and found a website called black circles, and got 4 Yokohama blue earth's fitted for £273.00

They send them to my local fitter. So I am well chuffed with the savings, as I hot higher grade Tyre's then my local fitters could do.
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REPORT, REPORT,REPORT!

Free advertising for Black Circles by a forum member, remove him forthwith!
 
Chris1979 said:
Slightly off topic, but had to have 4 new Tyre's on my polo.

4 places locally quoted me £400+ for bridgestone b250's as that's what was on the car.

I went online and found a website called black circles, and got 4 Yokohama blue earth's fitted for £273.00

They send them to my local fitter. So I am well chuffed with the savings, as I hot higher grade Tyre's then my local fitters could do.
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Also well off topic, but good for a laugh!
When I had my Ford Ranger XLT pickup, after 10 years it needed 2 new front tyres. Michelin AT´s Was quoted €250 per tyre by the local garage! No chance, hunted round , found some at another garage " puche " for €200 each, still too much.
Went to the expensive English garage, he had 2 Pirelli Scorpions just the right size that he had had is stock for over 2 years, got both for €250, good result!
 
Chris1979 said:
Slightly off topic, but had to have 4 new Tyre's on my polo.

4 places locally quoted me £400+ for bridgestone b250's as that's what was on the car.

I went online and found a website called black circles, and got 4 Yokohama blue earth's fitted for £273.00

They send them to my local fitter. So I am well chuffed with the savings, as I hot higher grade Tyre's then my local fitters could do.
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I had two fitted on my old Pug Thursday of last week, £44 each, unsure of the brand just cheap and cheerful:), I wouldn't worry about things off topic, where in the meeting place anything goes in my eyes within reason:).
 
martin-f said:
I had two fitted on my old Pug Thursday of last week, £44 each, unsure of the brand just cheap and cheerful:), I wouldn't worry about things off topic, where in the meeting place anything goes in my eyes within reason:).
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That's not a bad price mate:-)
The size I bought was 195/55/15 and went to check the spare and found that not only is it a different make that was on the car from new but also a size that will not fit on the car! 185/60/15.
 
I managed to get 4 brand new Joyroad 205/55 x 16 for the wifes Vectra for a mere £102 off ebay. Cost £20 to get them fitted and balanced :D

Not a name i have ever heard of, but they aren't bad, they are quiet and grip well in the wet and dry. For cheap hoo flung dung chinese tyres they are really good.

I also managed to kill my MG ZR a few days ago, with total ecu failure which will cost more than the car is worth to rectify. Its annoying as the engine was only rebuilt on it about 18 months ago.
 
Manicscrewdriver said:
I also managed to kill my MG ZR a few days ago, with total ecu failure which will cost more than the car is worth to rectify. Its annoying as the engine was only rebuilt on it about 18 months ago.
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I'm sure you could pick up a rover 25 for 39p, just swap bits about and pretend it's an MG... :D
 
Ahemm, already done that :-lmao

Got a 2002 25 in the same colour from an old bloke who had it from new with just over 39000 miles on the clock, all for a mere £150. I think he hit everything he could find as both wings are dented and so is the tailgate

Just had to swap the panels he bashed, although none of the MG livery has been used what so ever. Cant see the point of trying to make it look like something its not. As my old ZR was a MK1 i've only had to swap the splitters and panel inserts on the front and rear bumpers to make it look better, the original 25 grill has been retained.

The whole tailgate has been swapped including the boot spoiler but all the MG badges have been removed, I've even put the old rover 25 handles back on to it, it looks like a 25 with a boot spoiler not a ZR.

The alloys have also gone over although i have used the Rover wheel cap inserts insted of the MG ones.

Interior was mint in the 25 so i've left that as it is.

Just got the throttle body to swap over from the ZR so i can get back the 20BHP that was robbed at the factory. The 83BHP Rover 25 engine is just a knobbled 103BHP engine. Its only the throttle body that robs the power as it doesn't open as far as the MG one. A nice easy fix to get more power from it.

The 25 is a litttle more refined than the ZR i had as it does't break your spine everytime you go over a bump in the road like the MG did due to its lack of suspension. The 25 also has air conditioning (which works) and electric windows which the MG never had.

It should be a nice car once its all done. Its not the most refined car out there but i like it and thats all that matters.

The rest of the ZR will go on eBay and whats left after a few weeks will go to the local scrap dealer.
 
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Brian Philpotts said:
Also well off topic, but good for a laugh!
When I had my Ford Ranger XLT pickup, after 10 years it needed 2 new front tyres. Michelin AT´s Was quoted €250 per tyre by the local garage! No chance, hunted round , found some at another garage " puche " for €200 each, still too much.
Went to the expensive English garage, he had 2 Pirelli Scorpions just the right size that he had had is stock for over 2 years, got both for €250, good result!
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Was it anything like this Brian? I have still got mine. This is an american XLT 3ltr.
 
Manicscrewdriver said:
Just got the throttle body to swap over from the ZR so i can get back the 20BHP that was robbed at the factory. The 83BHP Rover 25 engine is just a knobbled 103BHP engine. Its only the throttle body that robs the power as it doesn't open as far as the MG one. A nice easy fix to get more power from it.
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Just a shame that by the time the 25 came out, Honda and Rover had "divorced" (BMW owned Rover by then), the preceding 200 series were basically a Honda Civic/Ballade with a Rover badge (as part of the Honda-Rover agreement that Rover built UK Hondas alongside Rovers), but the 25 was all-Rover, mostly, a lot of the popular Hondas had a life as a BL/Rover group car, but I guess BMW didn't want that deal with the enemy to go on when they took ownership of it...

Thinking about it, you could probably stick a Civic VTEC under the bonnet of that car... :D
 
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